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As Kafka's text states : " For the laws are very ancient , their interpretation has been the work of centuries . . " and , " there is a tradition that they ( these laws ) exist and that they are a mystery confided to the nobility ...
As Kafka's text states : " For the laws are very ancient , their interpretation has been the work of centuries . . " and , " there is a tradition that they ( these laws ) exist and that they are a mystery confided to the nobility ...
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The reader can neither interpret them , nor choose not to interpret them . This threatens all commentary either with silence or with inflation beyond the bounds of significance . Yet it is in representing the impenetrable obscurity of ...
The reader can neither interpret them , nor choose not to interpret them . This threatens all commentary either with silence or with inflation beyond the bounds of significance . Yet it is in representing the impenetrable obscurity of ...
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an appendix , Kafka's narrator suggests an interpretation that switches the position of victory and defeat , knowledge and innocence . We learn of the possibility that Odysseus knows about the sirens ' silence and that he only pretends ...
an appendix , Kafka's narrator suggests an interpretation that switches the position of victory and defeat , knowledge and innocence . We learn of the possibility that Odysseus knows about the sirens ' silence and that he only pretends ...
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Irony Ambivalence and Belief in Kleist and Kafka | 3 |
Anderson | 4 |
Jorge Luis Borges | 20 |
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